Shipment Types

1) LINER IN/LINER OUT (LINER TERMS) : Freight rate qualification, not a term of sale. Indicates that the offered port to port rate includes charges for loading of cargo on the vessel at the port of origin and charges for offloading at the port of destination.

2) LINER IN/FREE OUT (LI/FO) : Freight rate qualification, not a term of sale. Indicates that the offered port to port rate includes charges for loading of cargo on the vessel at the port of origin but not for its offloading at the port of destination. Here 'free' means 'not included' and not 'inclusive of' (as in free on board). It is not an Incoterm and may have different meanings in different countries.

3) FREE IN/LINER OUT (FI/LO) : Freight rate that includes carriage and the cost of discharging (offloading) as per the custom of the port. FI/LO rate excludes the cost of loading and (where required) the cost of stowage and lashing..

4) FREE IN/FREE OUT (FIOS) : A pricing term indicating that the charterer of a vessel is responsible for the costs of loading and unloading goods from the vessel.

Transport Types

Container transport with combined delivery types can be as below ;

1) PIER/PIER : Port to Port,

2) DOOR/PIER : From shipper's warehouse to port of discharge,

3) PIER/DOOR : From port of loading to buyer's warehouse,

4) DOOR/DOOR : From shipper's warehouse to buyer's warehouse.

CONTAINER LOADING TERMS

Loading the container varies according to the loader and consignee number as follows:

1) FCL/FCL (FULL CONTAINER LOAD) : Dispatch of the entire container to a consignee by a loader.

2) FCL/LCL (FULL CONTAINER LOAD / LESS THAN A CONTAINER LOAD) : Loading goods by a loader to multiple consignees.

3) LCL/FCL (LESS THAN A CONTAINER LOAD/ FULL CONTAINER LOAD) : Loading the goods by multiple loaders to a single consignee in the same container.

4) LCL/LCL (LESS THAN A CONTAINERLOAD/ LESS THAN A CONTAINER LOAD) : Dispatch to multiple consignees by multiple loaders.